She’s the Urban Pop belle with a plethora of R&B smash hits to her name. This year, Ciara will no doubt be hoping to add a few more hits to her name with the release of her new album, ‘One Woman Army‘- set for launch via EPIC Records.
So, in building momentum for the campaign months before its release, the ‘And I’ singer met with the guys over at ‘Dazed & Confused’ for an interview which saw her address her decision to stick with R&B music, her financial woes during the ‘Basic Instinct’ era, and her admiration for ‘Here I Am‘ Rapper Nicki Minaj.
On financing her ‘Basic Instinct’ campaign:
“It was over $200,000 I spent on promotion on myself. I love what I do but….it’s hard when you don’t see eye to eye with the team that you’re working with and our creative chemistry wasn’t fluid. Truthfully, the album shouldn’t have come out when it did because it wasn’t put in a position to succeed. The amount shipped to stores was very little, my fans pre-ordered albums and never got them. It was crazy. I was able to learn a lot through that experience, especially as a businesswoman. I believe in me-that’s where it starts, that’s where it stops.”
On ‘I’m Legit‘ collaborator Nicki Minaj:
“Nicki was a breath of fair of Female Hip Hop because when she started there weren’t any females in her world. There’s only a few Female Rap Artists that have been successful in the big way she is.”
On her decision to stick with R&B:
“With ‘Sorry’, I felt good about going against the grain. It was a real record. Right now Hip Hop is dominating the Urban Charts, and I didn’t want to roll with what was happening- I wanted to take a chance in that way’.
Ciara‘s new single ‘Body Party’ is out now!
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“A Few Rappers”?
We all know Missy Elliot is the closest, in terms of music, followed my Queen Latifah, in terms of her media presence as a whole.
But… YES CIARA. You better STAN for the current “QUEEN OF HIP-HOP”!!!
*Goes to I-Tunes & Purchases “Body Party’*
🙂 🙂 🙂
OK! LOL
You know what Ciara…. *runs and buys BP.
No the f*** u didnt chile so stop lyn lmao!! U a icki stan so u a Iooooooser OFF TOP…B****!!
Sam girl u triiied it! She praise kim and missy too u s*** starter lol!
Where did she mention Krim? If you keep lying to yourself you’ll be disappointed for ever. Nobody outside of her fan base thinks Kim is legendary.
LOOK IT UP LIKE I DID U FUNKY B****!! SAMATHA aint gon put it up and if u reeeeally think she didnt even mention MISSY then u stupid for real! But she’s spoke of them BOTH! If i were lyn id say did saybthat about icki. Yall deluuuuusional icki b****** kill me not even wantn another female rapper mentioned. All yall need to fall dead in yall bathroom honey. mix up sum pills and take them hoez!!
You look really silly, I just read the whole article and she didn’t say Missy’s or Kim’s name once.
@Truth and his lies though. Ci only mentioned Nicki, none of the other rap girls got a mention.
Missy is a legend. Nicki is the Queen. Eve has potential and Kim is a man chasing flop who lets her p**** rule her decisions.
@prince B**** DIDNT I SAY LOOK IT UP LIKE I DID!!?? NOW YOOOU LOOK SILLY U DUMB BUM B**** BUTBNOT HAAAALF AS SILLY AS YO MAMMY LOOK FOR NOT ABORTIN U…H**!!
Kiiii, this b**** is a liar. She didn’t say Kriminal’s name at all. You must have the same glasses as her surgeon does playboi.
And just to help u out i DIDNT say IN THIS article u b****! I saaaaid she’d praised both missy and kim too. THATSSSS what the f*** i said…u funky h**!
I knew there was a reason I liked her. Slay with this era and I promise to buy the album girl.
No b**** go buy icki’s and help it to crack platinum! Kim has 4plat b****! Naked truth platinum! #eatit!
CIARA JUST BECAUSE THAT PLASTIC H** WAS THE ONLY ONE TO GIVE YOU THE TIME OF DAY DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS THE QUEEN.
I LIKE YOU CIARA BUT YOU NEED TO STOP FRONTING LIKE THIS NICKY COLLABO IS GOING TO BE A HIT BECAUSE WITH HER ON IT, IT WILL FLOP JUST LIKE FREEDOM I AINT THRU WOO HOO ETC.
STAY AWAY FROM THE HORSE CICI!!
#POW
yass b**** have high expectations for me <3
just cause im nicki minaj does not mean everything i do is going to be a hit.
i know your use to everything i do being big.
Its not even a single how is it a FLOP?
Bcus icki on it THATS how
But what if it becomes a hit look Super Bass, Dance (A$$), Make Me Proud, Girl On Fire, Bed Rock, Beauty and The Beat, Moment 4 Life, Fly, Starships, Turn Me On, Beez In The Trap and Your Love. What will you say then?
OOOOP!! TELL THEM QUEEN MINAJ
You know with all the stupis stan wars this site tries to create sometimes you you forget the hard work that artist put in to their work. And for ciara to have spent $200,000 of her own money, i respect her for that. I will be buying One Woman Army
The haters can say they want. They can call her fake, they can say she’s a flop but the TRUTH remains that Nicki is a born winner. All Imma say is that I like Ciara, I like Rihanna, I like Beyonce and I like Nicki. I like ANY woman who knows her to handle a major career AND a personal life. I do not like women who go around showing love to men who will f*** them, tell them they love only for that same man to marry somebody ELSE and have you looking like a full time side piece after almost twenty years.
Take from that what you will.
Yo life is what needs to b taken h**!
And only a few singers have been as huge a flop as ciara. I hear the bathroom tour is sold out, Ciara bought all the tickets.
LOL.
DEATH!!!
You know you’re wrong for that one Girrrl…
Looks at your avi.
The last time I checked…
Leona Lewis = 20 Million Records WW
Ciara = 9 Million Records WW
You may now have a _/
Shes still flopped though. *Shrugs and walks away*
But she’s still sold more than Ciara though!!!
*Shrugs and Walks Away*
Ok? We can do this all day Leona Lewis is a racially ambiguous pop singer !! _/ Ciara sings R&B Crunk Music SIT !!
Damn, that was wrong but funny has f***. Good luck to ciara with this next album because i feel like it might be her last shotl
Nothing turns me on more than a boss b****! Spending money on your album shows dedication and that s*** is f****** admirable.
she kissing nickis ass
Ciara is so beautiful.
Arrgggh! I’m starting to like her.
What does she do to not like her, though? All she does is show love for other ppl … She never says anything negative or hateful… I dont understand why anyone would dislike her -_-
I dislike u…b****! 😀 xoxo couldnt pass THAT up girl lol
This was interesting. I don’t think any of today’s girls would spend money on their albums like that. I mean Taylor can afford to but I can’t see the other girls doing it. I wish i could like her music but I don’t really like that Wake up song. Sorry is good though.
I’m glad K.Michelle called “Jive” asses out But damn they let Ciara 200 000 they aint serious smh what kind of record label!! I love your urban music But POPara served these gorls >>>
ciara boo where is your relevance? i don’t like your flop ass but you are correct. queen onika slays and the girls will deal.
girl go stan for yo meat wearing gimmick ass fav and shut the f*** up on this blog…
S*** I’m rooting 4 U so bring it! (morgan freeman voice)
So you spent $200,000 on promo on an album you felt shouldn’t had came out? BS, YOU “pushed” that album, that’s why you spent your own money and it back fired.
No she’s saying now in retrospect it shouldn’t have come out becauase she knew there was no real support from her label. Everybody knows she had to pay for her “gimmie dat’ video plus she only did one or two performances for thoses songs.
No, it was not promoted I remember that week very well December 2010 the album was originally supposed to drop in August , august 16 to be exact but she came out w/ a mixtape !
Her label was P*** POOR ! They had her do 106 and park the night before her album debuted & she didn’t even perform. All her other promo was done the week after the release & it was too late!!! 🙁
Aaaaw, well Ci-error in the words of Gimmicky Garbaj herself, ”hang it up, flatscreen.” I hope after One T***** Army flops so hard, u will be reduced to the non-singing backup dancer that u were born to be.
Didn’t Rita get called Rihanna’s understudy?
I dont know y these hoez attackin my innocent self. All i said was that she’s praised kim and missy TOO!! i didnt say IN THIS ARTICLE!! But she has praised them. Now yall b****** get off my d***! For ONCE i was being nice about icki! (puts lacefront in a ponytail cause im really ready to stomp a b****! Takes bamboo earrings off and stand back in one leg with one fist balled up and the other hand on my tynie little s*** curvy waist with a razor…ill cut a b****!)
YAAASSS HUNTY PUT THAT LACEFRONT IN A PONYTAIL AND SLAY THESE FLOP NICKY STANS
WE LIVES FOR THE QUEEN. THEY LIVE FOR THE ELEPHANT FLOP
e-YAAAAASSSSSSS honey!!! on my lunch break i’m finna slay!! (twisting from work desk)
werent you pregnat h**?
go away
Im 7mths but i still maintain my figure sweetie…u mad??(holds belly with love)
Ya niggz have NO LIFE
That’s only because the music industry has changed. Before, youtube, internet downloading etc. People had to work HARDER for success.
Lol,what your Ignorant @ss is trying to say,that nicki have it easy and don’t put in work,Lol in this day and time people don’t have to buy music,they can steal it off the internet,only true fans actually go out and buy your music now to support you….in my opinion it was much easier back in the day because people had no choice but to buy you music,and the artist have only some harmless NYC bootleggers who buy there music copy and sell it,not the bootleggers isn’t even making any money because people can download music off the internet for free they don’t have to buy bootleg no more….it,s nuch harder for artist in this time and day…people is even getting albums now way before it hit,s the stores…so if you are going gold+ and platinum in this time and age then you still have people out there who still loves you to support financially,because they don’t have to buy you music they can download it for free.
Onika is nothing but a bleached-out RedOne-asslicking sell-out flop who ended her own career 2 years later.
Just remember that!
Female rapper MY ASS.
And I don’t know why the f*** have I been defending Ciara lately. She turns out to be another idiot who supports idiot h*** like her.
** Blasts “Love on Top” by the New Queen of R&B *****
If you think that BeyTHEIFce’ is the new “Queen of R&B”…
Then, surely, you can accept the fact that Nicki is the new “Queen of Hip-Hop”?
Come on Gwooorl…
🙂 🙂
and YOU just goto hell
@Truth…
MWAH.
xoxoxo
lol!! xoxox
LOL.
You Crazy B****… You gimme jokes though Gworl…
xo
BeyPURE SLAYAGEcé has been out since 1997 and sold 40 million albums as the leader of Destiny’s Child and 27 million albums solo, including 30 million in the states according to Billboard.
She’s scored 21 Top Three hits on urban radios, and won 14 Grammys in the R&B category.
Find me another female R&B artist who achieved all of
that ^^^ since she came out, OR go crawl in a hole.
[…] including 30 million in the states according to Billboard. […]
KING 😥
@H20…
DIANA ROSS.
Or is she not R&B enough…
Goodbye now.
🙂
Wait . . . @ Cole
You’ve been surfing Wikipedia for an entire hour, and that’s all you could come up with?
A woman who hasn’t released an album since 2006 is the NEW Queen of R&B, but NOT the one who’s been ruling R&B markets and airwaves for a decade and a half??
F*** a seat, girl you SOCCER CITY STADIUM for this one. 😆 😆 😆
When I think of solo Diana, I think of more soul, disco. But that’s just me I guess
PREACH HONEY!!!!!
@cole chiiiile i love this site lol!! but this time they attacking me and i hadn’t really went in on icki lol!! NOW i will tho
Im honestly tired of these basic b****** like nicki ciara etc…. there music is trash they wonder why there flopping
lmfaoo didnt beyonce sell out to POP as well?
lmfaooo i cant :’)
Umm Nicki headlined two tours in 2012 ALONE, UGLY! _/ & plz learn the difference between “THEY’RE” and “THERE” f***! Lecture over! Nicki’s the QUEEN & u will DEAL ! Ciara is the princess ! These other h*** could never have 200k in their bank accts! Let alone 18million 10 yrs later even after 2 flop albums…. REST, H**!! 😆
Both b****** are flops.
COSIGN!!!
the truth
*Looks at 7.2 million sold off starships*
*Looks at #1 single “diarrhea’monds” that dont come close*
Onika Oink is Garbage…. sorry i meant Garbaj.
either way u r correct sweetie
Notice how everyone else ignored u…. 😆
So what if they ignire @kate…she said something i agreed with so shut up faf
That’s why I like her! The girl did not loose herself or sell herself out to please people. That’s why I feel like she is on her way to the top again and what God has plan for her will not be stopped. No matter how much hateful things you people say about her!
wow!!! ciara has man fingers. she should wear gloves to hide those ugly things.
deeeeeath!!!
To smack the s*** outta u wit, GRANNY 😆
deeeeeeath @faf lololol
Ciara gorl… please no
dead at your name!!!
well the record company at jive have good business sense had hey put money in basic instinct . they would have lost
Well atleast there is somebody CiError outsold…Nikki!! 2 FLOP B****** TOGETHER!!! BUT ATLEAST NIKKI IS NOT RELYING ONLY ON MUSIC TO MAKE MONEY!! CIFLOPA DON’T EVEN HAVE A BRAND LIKE HER OWN PERFUME LINE OR CLOTHING OR SHOE LINE OR SOMETHING. THATS WHY HER FLOP ASS WILL NEVER BE ON FORBES LIST LIKE RIH AND BEY OR NIKKI!!
Who the f*** is Nikki, h** ? 😆 Honey do you know drug dealers make more money than R**** and they still dont make Forbes? Your earnings can only be ESTIMATED… Rihoes 360 only gives her 1/6 of her bank yearly.. KNOW YOUR FACTS !!!
Didn’t know she spent her own money on the basic instinct era.. i hope she does well this era if you put in the hard work you deserve to be rewarded
btw i think fantasy ride is so underrated that album had some wonderful songs wish it woulda done better
OUTSIDE OF ATL OR HOODS OF AMERICA AINT NOBODY CHECKING FOR HER!
^ yet you’re from Harlem… Shake on, FATTY 😆
The people on this site needs help! Most of the people saying negative things are Kim fans/stans. why though?? let’s be honest Kim ain’t coming back to music and if she did she would flop! I don’t believe she was legally barred from making music, if that’s the case how did she do black friday? Anyway some of you need a medical attention because not only is it aggravating but it’s down right pathetic to argue for someone who you don’t know. we’re all grown(hopefully) we can have different tastes and opinions on music.
(side eying this B**** like a MUTHA FUCKA…but ill b gentle and go ez) B**** AS SOON AS SAM PUT UP KIM PICS ON THE BLOG BELOW U AND THE OTHER STINK P**** ICKI STANS, includn yo mammy, WENT HAM EVEN THO SHE LOOKD NICE!! So b**** judge YOSELF DUNKY ASS SELF…H**! in the mean time u can eat my p**** til u kill me, feel me!(lil kim’s dont want d*** tonight)
@UMMM we know,sweetie ppl like @KatePimpleton sit in the public library going from CPU to CPU to like their comments… they’re nobodies in real life.. so… yeah.
You sound dumb af! LIl kim is that you?? It’ must be sad to keep holding out and defending her. especially when you keep using the same tired insults.
Of course a flop like ciara would would praise a basic b**** like nicki minaj
Smh ciara tryna get “im legit s***” as a single honey you better keep kissing Nickis concrete,caulk injected fake ass…
*King B Please Save Us From These Basic B*******
#IHadEnough
CRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYNNNNNNNNN!!! READ B**** READ!! YAAAAAAASSSSSSS SLAY ICKI!!
Where’s your faves single? Still waiting til the coast is clear? 😆
The barbz are to basic… talking bout your buying body party just because ciara praised your fav only thing yall need to be buying is that Roman Reloaded album i can’t believe UNAPOLOGETIC is about to outsell it how pathetic do better barbz
I LOVE U!!!!!!!!! Read deze hoez honey i got yo back! (pulls chain saw out my p**** and DARES a b**** would come @HIVE)
WHAT YOU ALSO NEED TO BELIVE THAT UNAPOLOGETIC HAS OUTSOLD BEYS LAST FLOP ALBUM AS WELL!! WORLDWIDE YOU MESSY F**!!
AND SHE BEEN PROMOTIN IT TO RIGHT?! BEY BARELY PROMOTED 4 SO SHUT THE F*** UP BFO U GET DRAAAAGED ALL UP THRU THIS MUTHA FUCKA! (starts chainsaw)
The struggle to be on Rihanna & Beyonces level…lol ciara you’ve been erased from the music industry hun…next
You still here, though F*** apparently she relevant enough to get ur fave & her m***** looking sidekick dragged on twitter & kicked OWT tha game .. Hows that laryngitis going? Throat infection from A*** d****? 😆
SOOOO TGJ, you not gonna POST ABOUT IDOL SCORING ITS LOWEST RATINGS SINCE 2002.. With the SHOW DOING ITS LIVE TAPINGS NOW?. Everybody’s talking about it, when will YOU!. Idol scored a Dismal 3.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Nicki’s reason for being on AI). You still refuse to talk about the LATENESS!!. But you gonna get BREAD, I understand.
12Mil is still n the bank… U MAD? 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
How did she get that success though? By stealing, lying and deceiving.
It doesnt matter if nicki goes on to sell 50 million records because at the end of the day she doesnt have the lyrical talent to deliver a classic album.
Don’t matter, just know kim LYING ass will never have it AGAIN! Bye F***!
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Lololol u so low down lolol!! U b**** lolol
Where.is.the.classic?
That’s my same question. I don’t care about American Idol, her endorsements, her magazine covers, perfume, etc…
I’ve been a fan from the beginning but I just need to know: Where.is.the.classic?
The effect PINK FRIDAY had, especially in America, makes it well on it was to becoming a classic. And in the words of your fave LIL KIM “You gotta do what you gotta do to make it”
umm, leave this post
I love Cici! Most positive girl in the world PERIOD! Who else got bread to spend like a BOSS? 200k on an album shooting videos with Melina? over 18mil 10 yrs later off 2 albums, front row @ Givenchy, spreads in Vogue, etc. Billboards woman of the year 2008 🙂 xxo
More artists should spend their own money promoting themselves than throwing bands at strippers !!!!!!! *Jussayin* You spend 30k in KOD and 100k on cars, U can invest in your own career!!
Ciara isn’t a dumb bish. She might have said there are only a few who is more successful but she knows who those few are. Salt N Pepa, MC Lyte, Missy, Queen Latifah, Lil Kim and they heyday Lauryn Hill. Those are the Greats Female Rappers. The way Icki is going, she will never make it n that pac. The only thing Icki have over these Greats is selling generic singles. Those Greats were not Sub Par Whores like Icki. When they sold singles. They sold sold albums also. And oh yeah, she isn’t f*ckin with Da Brat or Eve too.
U spoke the gospel truth honey!
She need to stop popping them mollies because she sounds stupid.
Lmao Why do the Icki stans always throw around the “7.2 records sells for Starships”. U Barbz know that’s nothing to booast about. When she sells that n albums. Then the bish has done something. Selling 7.2 singles with Starship and u only has sold around 2 million albums WW. IS AN EPIC FAIL LMAO. #SUB PAR H**
that was an EPIC read chile!!
Nicki has sold about 4.5M album WW !! DUMBASS.
^^^^^^^^^^Dumbass that’s still an EPIC FAIL LMAO
Nicki is a FLOP! Miss Banks is coming for her ass
Kii
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